![]() ![]() In Aliide and Zara, Sofi Oksanen brings two generations of women together representing contrasting chapters of Estonian history but both faced with the same challenge: to gain enough space for themselves to survive within male-dominated political structures. Half a century later Aliide recognizes Zara as Linda’s daughter. After an interrogation, Aliide betrayed her sister, who is then deported to Siberia with her ten year-old daughter Linda. For the sake of her sister Ingel’s husband Hans, a fighter for Estonian independence with whom she was in love, Aliide married a hated party official. ![]() Then the arrival of the young Russian Zara forces her to confront her past and the young Aliide of the 50s. In the early 90s Aliide is an old woman living on her Estonian farm. In the end she will have betrayed everything and gained nothing – except for a long overdue moment of honesty with herself. Aliide is a classic anti-heroine, a woman in whose biography love and history collide in the worst ways possible. ![]()
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